Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997

Navidpour, Shahrokh, Nayebzadeh ², Hassan H., Soleglad, Michael E., Fet, Victor, Kovařík, František & Kayedi, Mohammad Hassan, 2010, Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part VI. Lorestan Province, Euscorpius 99 (99), pp. 1-23 : 13

Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997

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Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997a: 41 , figs. 1–3, 14; Kovařík, 1998: 111; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 144, Kovařík, 2007: 86, figs. 1–3, 126–129; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 10, figs. 11, 17, 77–80; Navidpour et al., 2008d: 5, figs. 3–4, 23–26; Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 6, figs. 2, 6–7, 9, 20–23.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Iran, Fars Province, ca. 1000 m a.s.l., Zagros Mts., near Abshar Village , 30°23'N 51°30'E; FKCP .

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Fars Province, ca. 1000 m a.s.l., Zagros Mts., near Abshar Village, 2-3 May 1996, 1 ♂ (holotype), 1 ♂ (im.) and its ecdysis (paratype No. 1), leg. J. Pitulová, 1 ♀ (allotype, Fig. 129), 2 juvs. (paratypes No. 2 and No. 3), leg. V. Šejna , 1 juv. (paratype No. 4), leg. D. Král ( FKCP) .

LORESTAN PROVINCE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Iran, Lorestan Province , Dorud, Papiun Village, 33°43'15"N 49°10'21"E, 1653 m a.s.l. (Locality No. LO-1370), October 2009, 2 ♂ ( RRLS), 1 juv. ( FKCP), leg. A. Bahreei, M. Bahreei & R. Amraee.

DISTRIBUTION: Iran, known from provinces Fars, West Azerbaijan, Khoozestan (see Kovařík, 2007: 86; Navidpour et al., 2008a: 10), Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad ( Navidpour et al., 2008d: 5), Lorestan (first report), and Chahar Machal & Bakhtiyari (Pirali-Kheirabadi et al., 2009: 6).

Figures

Figure 5: Map of Lorestan Province showing distribution of Hottentotta lorestanus sp. n., Hottentotta saulcyi (Simon, 1880), and Hottentotta zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997, collected in this study.

Figures 15–18: Females of Hottentotta species from Iran, dorsal view. 15. H. saulcyi (Simon, 1880), ♀ (94 mm), Iran, Ilam Province, 30 km NW Ilam, 33°43'N 46°41'E (FKCP). 16. H. schach (Birula, 1905), ♀(112 mm), Iran, Fars Province, ca 1700 m a.s.l., 10 km E of Sivand vill. (FKCP). 17. H. khoozestanus Navidpour et al, 2008, ♀(119 mm) holotype, Iran, southeastern Khoozestan Province, Behbahan–Dailam road, 31°55'N 49°44'E (RRLS). 18. H. zagrosensis Kovařík, 1997, ♀(103 mm) alotype, Iran, Fars Province, Zagros Mts., Abshar vill. env. (FKCP).